{"id":526517,"date":"2026-01-19T02:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/526517\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T02:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:54:20","slug":"san-antonio-zoo-brings-back-valentines-cockroach-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/526517\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Zoo brings back Valentine&#8217;s cockroach fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A viral fundraiser is showing love to the San Antonio Zoo while exacting revenge on exes of Valentine\u2019s Day past.<\/p>\n<p>The zoo\u2019s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/sazoo.org\/crymeacockroach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cry Me a Cockroach<\/a> initiative is \u201cback and bigger than ever,\u201d according to its website. With a donation, people ages 18 and older can symbolically name a cockroach after an ex-lover.<\/p>\n<p>This cockroach will then be fed to one of the zoo\u2019s animals.<\/p>\n<p>Fundraiser participants can select a rat or vegetables instead of a cockroach, if they so choose. Both cockroaches and vegetables are a $5 donation, while a rat is a $15 donation. The prices are decreased from <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/south-texas-el-paso\/news\/2025\/02\/05\/san-antonio-zoo-brings-back--cry-me-a-cockroach-fundraiser-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a>, when a vegetable cost $5, a cockroach cost $10 and a rat cost $25.<\/p>\n<p>Along with an act of satisfying payback, donors will receive a downloadable Valentine\u2019s Day card and a Valentine\u2019s Day video featuring a zoo resident. The zoo will also post feeding videos on its social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to embrace romance rather than revenge, the San Antonio Zoo is offering its <a href=\"https:\/\/sazoo.org\/sitewrench-calendar\/san-antonio-zoo\/?swwpc_calendar_id=839&amp;swwpc_event_id=5760070&amp;swwpc_event_date=2026-02-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wild at Heart Dining Experience<\/a> on Feb. 14. The event includes a cocktail mixer with appetizers at the hippo overlook followed by dinner in the hippo viewing cave.<\/p>\n<p>A week before, on Feb. 7, the zoo will host a <a href=\"https:\/\/sazoo.org\/sitewrench-calendar\/san-antonio-zoo\/?swwpc_calendar_id=839&amp;swwpc_event_id=5752726&amp;swwpc_event_date=2026-02-08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Your Next Ex<\/a> single mingle night for people 21 years and older. Attendees can enjoy icebreaker games, music, speciality drinks and a variety show complete with a magician, acoustic musician and burlesque performances.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A viral fundraiser is showing love to the San Antonio Zoo while exacting revenge on exes of Valentine\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":526518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,3425,7366,216773,50,7202,155980,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-526517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-community-news","11":"tag-hannah-maguire","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-what-you-need-to-know","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115919510745009162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}